F*'d up something with partitions, need help

[zirklius]

So i had my HDD for few years, during that time i've split it in to 2 partitions, for storage and main use, but since i got SSD like a year ago, i tried merging those partitions and fucked up. Now, in desperate need for more storage i need those 400gb's that are unallocated, but when i try to create a new volume, it says i can't write to it cause there isnt enough space there, even if i try to make a volume for like 30gb. 



Any help appreciated, thanks

 

[LionSpeck]

7 minutes ago, zirklius said:

So i had my HDD for few years, during that time i've split it in to 2 partitions, for storage and main use, but since i got SSD like a year ago, i tried merging those partitions and fucked up. Now, in desperate need for more storage i need those 400gb's that are unallocated, but when i try to create a new volume, it says i can't write to it cause there isnt enough space there, even if i try to make a volume for like 30gb.

My advice would be, since Windows partition manager is a bit crappy, to create a bootable USB drive with GParted live (or any other linux distro, if you're handy with it) and manage your partitions with that. It allows to move, stretch and do all kinds of stuff you'd expect, without the bugginess you encountered.

[svmlegacy]

MBR can only support 4 Partitions. You need to reformat.

[LionSpeck]

21 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

MBR can only support 4 Partitions. You need to reformat.

Wow, how did I not even realize that...

But now that I look at the pic again, there seem to be 3 partitions of recovery from past Windows installations on Disk 0; OP might as well get rid of those to create the partition he wanted

[TreesP]

When you say "desperate for storage", do you have an external drive with enough space to make a backup?

 

If so, my idea would be to download Macrium Reflect (free will do) and make a backup of your current system, unallocated space will be greyed out and not included. Make a recovery USB from within the program - very important! Boot to the recovery via the USB and restore the backup you made.

 

Macrium is great. During the restore, you can drag and drop the partitions you want to restore and adjust space accordingly. That way you could be back to where you are now and recover the unallocated space with no loss of files etc.

 

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

[Master Disaster]

32 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

MBR can only support 4 Partitions. You need to reformat.

Not at all, you can convert from MBR to GPT. Microsoft have a tool called MBR2GPT or something like EASUS Disk Manager can also do it. It is pretty safe but still not recommended for absolute mission critical data.

 

I'm really not sure how it will react to the disk being dynamic though.

[kokosnh]

What type are both this drives initialed, in MBR?  
Why is that HDD a dynamic DISK? 
Why there is a pagefile on it?  
Thous 3 recovery partition on that HDD are for what? These are recovery partition or what?

[TreesP]

2 hours ago, kokosnh said:

Thous 3 recovery partition on that HDD are for what? These are recovery partition or what?

After looking again, you're right. I do remember a bug (if it's a bug) with Windows, when updating, it would add an extra recovery partition. Maybe that's what is going on here?

[Needfuldoer]

Do you have another drive big enough to hold everything on Storage? (Even if that doesn't include replaceable things like a Steam library?)

 

If you do, lifeboat everything from Storage to the other drive, then nuke and pave the 1 TB HDD and restore.

 

If not, go pick up an external drive and do the above. Keep the external drive around for backups.